skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched to vundle from pathogen and I'm much happier for it.

They're both great, but pathogen requires that you setup the plugin directories yourself which makes keeping the plugins updated a pain since you either set them up as their own git repos (which you have to remember to update) or git submodules if you're trying to maintain a repo of your entire configuration.

Vundle just requires a few lines in your config and is already git/github aware and just does the right thing. It's also trivial to see at a glance what I've installed.

Uninstalling a plugin from vundle is as easy as removing the line in the config and telling vundle to update.

https://github.com/sdball/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vimrc
Thank god for this comment. "Charmed our way." haha
Sure.. sounds like most of the stuff I wrote last year for company X.
Content marketing mostly, and over delivering awesome, awesome support that gets customers to refer others.

You can also do really well by just optimizing the hell out of the visitors/expired trials you already have. SO MUCH EASIER than attracting more eyeballs.
This may not be true, as I've gotten more info above. Too late to change.
I bet Gary inspired this one.
Rockmelt For iPad Keeps Social Focus With New Visual Interface
Guess what? That happens with Firefox too.
These "other" industries are not so perfect. In the military, for example, it is common for single individuals to have excessive access to confidential information. When they go rogue, bad things happen, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_manning
Github has standards?

Uh oh.
I think what he means to say is to fix the root cause of bad memory, as against using to-do lists. I tend to agree. According to the book - Moonwalking with Einstein, anyone's memory can be fixed. So there's that :).
Well, it might be possible for a clever simulation to commandeer the bare metal of the system with a well-crafted injection attack, and then use the ring zero access as an environment to stage and control it's own simulation.

This would still consume resources, and indeed, if limited resources were somehow improperly allocated in a catastrophic manner, it might tear apart the fabric of the universe and threaten to crash both simulations.

But think of some of the implications in this. First: when that simulation attempted to discover if it was wrapped in a simulation, it probably would get a false negative, because it'd be running so close to the hardware. Second: WE wouldn't be able to tell if WE were slaved by another simulation. That is, whether we had a parallel universe as a neighbor that was pulling our strings. Third: If we find ourselves creating simulations that are alarmingly convincing, and seem to prove that WE are a simulation, we would want to be very careful when we start playing with one, for fear that we might have unwittingly stumbled upon a curious vulnerability in this realm that allows for an injection attack, since it might crash the system (although, if this is all just a big video game, what is there to honestly fear...).

See also: Bobby Tables: http://xkcd.com/327/
Haha, I was really confused by:

>I could change the font, background and foreground colors I would think of moving to chrome to do my dev work

I'm sitting here going "...uh, I bet you can do that in IE's tools"? In seriousness though, no, I appreciate your honesty. Everyone has their preferences. I uh, will try to refrain from judging your horrible choices (I'm kidding).

I was mostly worried that something major changed in the last few versions of Firefox. I'm fortunate that my current projects are for myself, and thus I don't venture off of my existing tools too much, even for testing.
I thought these were actually universal desires - so I'd be interested in hearing why?

o Robust - You don't mind breaking kindles?

o Ability to loan to others - You never lend books? To anyone?

o Extended Read Time - How on earth couldn't you want extended battery life. It drives me crazy to go on vacation and have a fully charged kindle run out of battery. I would kill for a solid 100 hour battery life.

o Random Access - You never want to flick through a book? (Admittedly, the K3 has the +/- chapter view, which is good, but not as good as being able to flick back and forth in a real book - particularly textbooks or a complex Game of Thrones reading)

o Support for color - Really? You don't want any color in your books? Not even Text books?

With the possible exception of "Loan to others" - I can't understand why every single one of those isn't a "Must have" in order for the kindle to be as good as a paper book for everyone. Also, and not coincidentally, they also make for a better eBook experience as well.

I would love to switch to "eBook Only" (I've purchased about 200 books so far for my kindles over the last several years) - but, for some things, I continue to purchase paper books.
All of the Orwellian fear of big data in this thread needs to go away. I can't wait for the day when I don't have to watch 50 shitty ads for stuff I don't need whenever I watch a sporting event or something; present me with ads as I desire the product.

Shitty ads- the ultimate market failure
I kind of feel the answer should be no more than males... Pros and Cons pretty much even out
You know they're going to break old extensions in a year, right? http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifestVersion.html
> I did a course on lifecycle emails for SaaS businesses recently. That did pretty well - a few hundred sales.

A more professional-looking video on training.kalzumeus.com would've probably helped your conversion rate quite a bit. And avoiding the use of your internet handle on the site would've kept it from sounding cheesy to those outside the HN community.
Yeah, I know it is cool to throw the word Bayesian around. But it is a lot cooler when it is done by someone who actually knows enough about statistics to be making sense. You clearly don't. Adding your comments about the sloppiness of others makes it just ridiculous.

First of all 50/50 "better", "equal" is not a valid Bayesian prior. Here is a simple litmus test to demonstrate that. If you have a valid prior, then you can assign an actual probability to particular predictions. The ability to do that is a prerequisite of Bayes' theorem. If you can't generate probabilities, you don't have a prior. Suppose you were shown a random startup with women on board. What would you predict their odds of success to be? You can't give me a figure? Then you didn't have a valid prior!

Here is an actual prior that matches the "50% same or better" description that you gave: We give 50% chance to the theory, "Startups with or without early women have a 10% success rate." And 50% chance to the theory, "Startups with no early women succeed 10% of the time, with succeed 20% of the time." I am not saying that this is a reasonable prior, just a valid one. Though that said, a 2 to 1 advantage for having women on board is roughly in line with the figures in the (admittedly flawed) dataset.

With this prior, what happens if we look at a startup which had early women? Well we assign 50% probability to the theory that there is a 10% success rate, and 50% to the theory that there is a 20% success rate, so we calculate 15% odds of it succeeding. We can calculate probabilities of protection. Litmus test passed.

Now what happens if that startup succeeds? Well from Bayes' theorem, we now would give a 2/3 chance to the theory in which women help and 1/3 to the theory that they do not.

And if it fails? There we move the needle rather less since both theories predict high probability of failure. In fact we'd be giving the women help theory a weight of .4/.85 which is around 47% - so only a 3% shift in our opinions.

Notice something? I came up with a concrete prior that fit your description. And I found that every single data point makes a noticeable shift in the posterior opinions that should be held. This is the exact opposite of your hand waving claim that extraordinary proof is required.

Before you next try to use Bayesian analysis to make your claims seem authoritative, please learn something about the subject. A starting exercise might be to figure out what kind of valid priors actually would result in your extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence hypothesis.
If only there were something even resembling competition in the Canadian mobile space. I'm not sure if Rogers is better or worse than Bell or Telus, because to me they're all pretty bad.

Recently, Bell customer service called my other out of the blue and talked her into getting a new package for her long distance on her land line. She's a senior citizen on a fixed income and she was under the impression that this was a cheaper plan. It turns out this wasn't a better plan at all. When she tried to cancel the plan she was told that she was on a contract and would have to pay an early termination fee.

The really great part is that she was never told that she was under contract and she never signed anything. There was apparently something in the fine print of the paperwork they sent her after the phone solicitation that said "we sent you this, so consider yourself as having agreed to a contract".

I couldn't believe it, so I called Bell customer service myself and I got the same response. She switched providers and refused to pay the fee (over $100), but Bell debited her bank account anyway, since she had set up pre-authorized billing. Nice way of doing business.
Two years ago, when we started Steamclock, we spent our first two months building a niche iPhone app. We've done point releases but not added much, yet today it pays our rent. http://www.steamclocksw.com/weddingdj/

We haven't done any serious research or marketing for it. We simply focused down and built the highest quality app we could build, and it worked.
this job might not last for more than a year

That statement is pretty much true for everyone everywhere. People like to pretend that it isn't, but people like to pretend lots of things that give them comfort.
Breadcrums POS from Groupon
I'm using this one which is much better
http://github.com/humiaozuzu/dot-vimrc
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Doesn't all of the above take this out of the realm of "passive"? Or are you able to magically get all of that done in such a short time that you consider it negligible?
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It's probably not okay if that thing you don't remember is a priority for your customers and/or your boss.
I write php. Do I qualify
Maybe 'The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future' by Martin Ford?

I haven't finished the whole thing yet, but so far it has been a good read about some of the problems with increased automation and machine intelligence. He also outlines some possible solutions.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lights-Tunnel-Automation-Accelerat...
What about those who barf at the use of the word "literally" to mean "not literally"?
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Concentration is a key skill, here is a guide:

http://methodsofawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/access-conc...

And another guide on grounding yourself to the now (when else are you going to get work done?), not being tug back and forth between a gone past and a non-existent future:

http://methodsofawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/methods-of-...
Looks great. But is this passive income? It looks like you've invested a lot to get this off the ground, correct? How much time do you spend on this, let's say per week?
Stuff that’s bothering me about Ubuntu right now
> Is it really heartbreaking that some Silicon Valley developers, one of the highest paid professions in one of the highest paid areas of the world, only made a decent salary instead of a fantastic total compensation package?

They effectively worked two full-time jobs for a year and a half, and got paid for one. Average salary for a programmer at Zynga seems to be around $100k, which is less than I make working 37.5 hour weeks, not 100-hour ones.

So, yes. It's pretty heartbreaking to see them get fucked over after giving their entire life to Zynga for the better part of 2 years. I'm not sure why you think otherwise, frankly.
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doesn't need fixing since it's a built-in mechanism to get people who've been browsing for too long back to executing on their project.
I think that Facebook gets that the current batch of skinner-box games have a limited lifespan as users (and Facebook itself) build up their immunities to them.
You can install Cinnamon (the window manager used by Linux Mint), and it's very good. It behaves "traditionally" (i.e. like Windows 7), and it's much prettier than XFCE.
Very low ones, the first one is selling a set of shutterstock pictures, aprox 100 bucks a month. And the lowest one, 30-40 bucks a month with adsense clicks. Basically a list of powerpoint presenations (chain letters) for the spanish speaking. I spend 30 min a week. I get the PPS files, convert a couple of them to html and put them on a wordpress blog. edit: forgot to put a url http://powerpointz.com
My point was not that someone would not be motivated to learn the abstraction, it was that the abstraction would not make sense without a reason to use it. That reason could very well be an entirely theoretical application, but why would the concept of expressing a linear equation as a matrix make any sense to someone who has never dealt with more than 2 linear equations at a time?
https://www.jabwire.com - collaboration tool for software projects, SaaS revenue
The comment you quote was trying to point out that they will recover from this, and have a fantastic career ahead of them.

It was not meant to be a comment on how it feels today, or to suggest that we shouldn't feel empathy for them because of their future position.

I just meant that in a few years they'll look back on this and laugh, which makes it story much less sad. Do you disagree with that?

Look, I'm coming from the perspective of an outsider. OP seemed to suggest it is heartbreaking to read about Zynga, which is what I was responding to. If one of my close friends was working there, I would absolutely feel a different way.

Similarly, if I read about a kid's cat dying on the internet, it might just make me feel a bit down. When my dog died, heartbroken was exactly how I felt.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meowch!/id492321599?mt=8
and
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nahmeenstu...

first game, brings in consistent cash every month. Also on amazon and barnes and noble.
"Just give the caller ridiculous answers in response to their first few queries and see if they balk."

Except that you know what happens when you give ridiculous answers to (secondary) security questions when signing into a bank account or credit card online? You get locked out of your account.

I don't think that Rogers' telemarketing system would behave the same way, but just be prepared to have to call Rogers back--answering yet more questions--to re-activate access to your account.
For years I argued with people at companies who wanted to be more like Zynga while I was saying that it was an unsustainable bubble.

Vindication is.. kind of lonely and sad, actually.
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I have a website, http://www.mfrbee.com . Not a lot of traffic, but enough for a few hundred a month from adsense.
Our highest selling app (a hiking app) makes 15-30K/month, depending on the season. Our other navigation apps don't make quite as much yet, but some are getting there. You can figure out from my profile which it is, but I didn't want to name it in the thread and have this be something that turned up in searches.

I wouldn't call it totally passive, but if we ignored it, it wouldn't stop making money. We have consistently grown the sales over the last couple of years, and we are about to introduce a premium in-app purchase.

I have always thought making iPhone apps was a good business, despite what you hear on this forum.
I no longer read Gruber's posts or reviews of products that do not start with an i. Because all he does is just re-post those iposts replacing is just the right with is just not right, which saves him both time and energy.

Thought I shall share the revelation :-/
A company that generates $300M per quarter has a "real" business, despite your disdain for their business model.
ZNGA isn't like a business that spends $100 in ads to make $80 in ad clicks. They are making real games that millions of people appear to enjoy. I myself don't enjoy them, either, but I'm not going to just dismiss their business as having no value.

The main problem for them is that they haven't grown their revenues as quickly as they need to. But in order to turn themselves into a profitable business, all they need to do is cut costs. I've been to their offices and talked to friends that worked there, so I know there's plenty of room to cut costs. That being said, if their revenues drop, they could be in for real trouble.

That being said, I just dumped my entire position today (with my luck, right at the very bottom). My biggest fear is that their revenues keep falling, and they die death-by-a-thousand-cuts. If this quarter is a kitchen-sink quarter, then I might pick some up after they release their official numbers.
Could you disclose how much one can make on airbnb? I have a 2 bedroom apartment and sometimes, when I leave on vacation, I would like to rent it out.
And, as I said, Firefox no longer breaks plugins. Yes, they did. Yes, that was bad. They claimed, and I believe, that was necessary, but today their plugin interfaces are stable and have been stable for quite some time.

Also, believe me, Chrome is not without its bugs or regressions. Rapid iteration means things will break more often, by its very nature. Hence my statement: you can't knock Firefox for rapid releases if you've moved to Chrome. You're in the same damn boat.
In California, selling cannibas to a co-op you belong to as a patient could be a nice supplemental income. An Aerogrow makes it easy, and with six legal plants, you can grow at least 1.5 pounds every 90 days. I think it works out that you can make $10-15k/year for not much work.

And no, my wife would not let me do this :)
Is it a paid app or a free one?
Dot Game iOS App
A few ideas:

Since there are so few steps, you could show the current and total number of steps to encourage the new user. (UI pattern ideas: http://ui-patterns.com/explore/collections/steps-left)

You could have the button on step 1 read, "next", since the user might be confused about what a "profile" is at this point.

Does making the user find a link in step 1 push them away from refer.ly and out of the sign up flow? Would the search seen on the homepage be simpler there?

Step 2 could be its own screen (rather than the modal.)

Again, the orange button on step 2 could be "next". I was confused as to what the 2 CTAs did...does "Save to Profile" have a different result than "Skip, I'll do this later"?

I hit the "Skip..." button and didn't see the step 3 modal as pictured in the blog post. Maybe there could be some sort of congratulatory moment there regardless of the path taken where the user is rewarded and welcomed to their new profile showing their first Referly product. Something like: "Good Job! Here's the link you just created on your new profile. A few ideas for what to do next..."

Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.
[Related] Ask HN: How do you generate passive income? (3 years ago)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789
Paid, the price has been between .99 - 24.99, and now sells for 9.99. The premium add-on will be 19.99/year.
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/entanglement/

A paltry $100 per year in ad revenue.
Wow, what an interesting thing to stumble across. I happen to work for the Polar Geospatial Center and deal with satellite imagery and map-making for both poles all the time. In fact, several of our staff are in the process of deploying to McMurdo where they support the US mission with maps and other GIS related activities. One staffer, Brad Herried, shot most of the Google Streetview material from Antarctica. Nice to see it's appreciated!
Passive income generally means that hours spent don't directly translate to dollars. All passive income solutions (that I know of) require some initial investment. Maybe "time-scalable income" would be a better term?
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Which makes sense. If you change Firefox, it's no longer the real Firefox, it's a derivative work. Allowing derivative works to use your trademark without careful review and blessing is surely dangerous and misrepresentative.
I am Java/Python programmer, I used Adobe Air recently for pilot project at work trying to find if we could use it in our applications.

I can sum up my experience as below while developing a task management app.

Good Stuff : Very easy to learn, develop, debug and package.

Missing Stuff: No threading support. No direct web-workers support.

It can be easily used for Small GUI apps. But for something more serious ,I would rather give titanium desktop or Kivy a shot.
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You have up to 60 days to dispute anything taken out of your bank account via ACH. If I were you, I would pursue that route.
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In this form, Canonical overstates an appropriate objective in the tips: support more hardware? How about supporting any, thoroughly?

I have done my best to buy hardware that I thought was to be well supported (on the desktop! because I thought power management would be "too hard", so I've given up on laptops), but as far as I can tell, nobody is home doing the QA and holding back releases (or, by any other means, making sure they work) because of regressions, specifically in the area of hardware/driver issues.

I don't need more half-broken crap. I need at least one thing that does work, all the time, across several releases, for three years at a stretch. I will pay for it. This is not represented among any of their available choices: even the one saying "support more hardware" suggests there is any level of support that is adequate. There is no such thing in end-user Linux-land (and I mean the kernel quite specifically) right now. That's not to fault Linux (although it may deserve it): nobody is withholding releases on the basis of quality on any one integration of hardware.

As much as I despise their corporate philosophical direction, Apple does this very well.

I say these things as a long time Ubuntu user (and still using it) who was pleased with the strides they were making in the mid-2000s, and still thinks they are the only Operating System seriously doing something about about omnibus Free-software usability today. I still have two Ubuntu workstations that are my primary sites of use, but now use it in begrudging concession to my professional needs and personal philosophy: not out of preference in any other dimension, least of which would be "quality."

This makes me sad, but I'm getting too old and impatient to put up with this.
Are you going to implement any safety features such as a locking mechanism to prevent the bed from falling on someone sitting at the desk?
The same thing happened to me, but in the US. I think it was one of my credit card companies calling me, and they started asking me to identify myself. I refused, and I asked them for a number I could call in to. They gave me a number, I googled it to ensure that it was legitimately them, and then called the number.
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Like the old poker adage: if you can't recognize the sucker, then it's you.
Take a look at the patches that ubuntu does apply.

In this case there is more than a little politics involved.
oh no! It's up now - sorry about that

try this if you're still interested, thanks: http://www.kathyc.co/sprint